Traffic source?

For most sites, it is organic search engine traffic. For new ones, it is paid ads - Google Shopping and Bing Shopping.

For me it's pinterest and paid ads.

If your website is a bit older and you have worked on it then it is organic SE traffic that works as a traffic source. And for newer websites, people start Google campaigning, social media ads, and many others too that help in generating good leads in minimum time.
But it is very important to also work on organic traffic because Google watches every source of your websites.

Hmmm ...

QUOTE:
• Our research shows that the biggest source of traffic is direct (traffic that comes from your own site). Nearly one-fourth of web professionals surveyed say it's their top source. This aligns well with the data above showing that most visitors will click through multiple website pages when visiting a website.
• Organic search (17%), social (16%), and email (14%) are the next web traffic sources on the list. This also isn't incredibly shocking since my past research has shown that online marketers leverage SEO, social media, and email marketing the most when building awareness for their brand.
/QUOTE
source: https://blog.hubspot.com/website/web...alytics-report

So for the author's dataset, that's 47% from "organic", "social" and "email".
Note: The author said, "I surveyed over 400 web traffic analysts in the U.S. (including web managers and marketers who track website growth) to get an idea of how they measure website performance and the top strategies they use to rank on search engine results pages."

And that's less than 25% from direct traffic.
Note: The author said, "Nearly one-fourth [<25%] of [400+] web professionals surveyed say it's [it = direct traffic] their top source."

So that probably means those 400+ participants get a total of => 29% and <=39% from the other traffic sources in the glossary below.
Note: Keyword here is "probably". That's because I'm assuming not a point below 14% nor above 24% is a range = "nearly" when the author said, "nearly a fourth".

GLOSSARY:
Most website analytic tools will organize your traffic sources into the following categories:
• Direct Traffic -- Categorized as traffic that does not come from a referring website. If traffic is coming from an unknown source, it will likely be categorized as direct traffic as well.
• Organic Traffic -- Any traffic that comes to your site from a search engine, but that isn't paid for. Any organic traffic is going to be a result of your inbound marketing and SEO efforts.
• Paid Search Traffic Any traffic that comes from a paid search campaign you've launched on a search engine like Google or Bing.
• Social Traffic Any traffic that comes from a social media website, like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
• Email Traffic any traffic that arrives to your site from an email will show up as email traffic.
• Referral Traffic Any traffic that comes to your website from any other website that is not a social media platform or a search engine. Someone clicking over to your website from a hyperlink on another blog would be considered referral traffic.
• Other If you have any traffic that doesn't fit into the above categories, or has been specifically tagged as "other", it will fall into this traffic category.
/GLOSSARY
source: https://evenbound.com/blog/direct-tr...kmarked%20link.

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Marx I think you misunderstood the question. Enzo is asking what is current leading source of traffic. Just curious what are you personally using for traffic ?

organic social media and google

Well its social media ,i have my site on twitter ,quora ,instagram ,tiktok ,youtube etc .Here i create content i help people and people check my site as i focus on helping them

depend on what your budget is if you want go for free route social media is a good way.
paid ads usually facebook google tiktok

Recently I got more Direct traffic than organic and social media.
Hard to determine nowadays as Google updates always around trolling us.

I also using Email marketing to drive traffic from daily fresh leads.

I have noticed that traffic from social media increases more bounce rate than organic traffic. Does anyone agree with it?

Social media mostly Pinterest, quora, solo ads.

The best traffic is organic. It's true and it's been tested by many people.
I think there are three sources of good organic traffic.
1) Articles with a link to your site on other resources.
These can be interesting articles or reviews that link to your site. This will not only give you traffic but also improve your SEO;
2) YouTube. Everyone knows that this is very popular. Create interesting videos and reviews. The description of the video must be a link to your site.
You have to motivate people to go to your site. Do it in every video.
You can also cooperate with YouTube channels where is your audience. It is expensive but well worth it.
3) Instagram. This is probably the most popular social network.
Make interesting content, communicate with followers, create targeting ads with a link to your website.
I think these are the most important things to do.
I'm not talking about good SEO because it's obvious!

Twitter, LinkedIn and affiliates...All organic atm

PPC
posts on my site are very few, so I do not rely on organic traffic

digital marking as well paid ppc and social ads sms for my business etc

Organic hands down. Do a good keyword research (high volume and low competition) and write articles based in those keywords and you will start to rank, then over time you will see the traffic coming in.

Social requires a lot of effort to drive traffic, because since its not organic you need to write posts down to drive traffic to your website and will need to do it over and over again.

Paid media, i stopped using it, because the ROI was negative so i have decided well moving to organic.

My best traffic sources, in order:

1. SEO, search engines
2. Email marketing (emailing my list)
3. YouTube
4. Safelists
5. Podcast
6. Blog comments and link building

Those are what I focus on primarily.

Right now, its organic traffic. Once I establish myself more, I am going to utilize targeted paid advertising to increase my website traffic

Google shopping and Pinterest.